Yesterday, President Barack Obama and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced aggressive actions to promote energy efficiency and save American consumers billions of dollars per year.
Included were major changes to energy conservation standards for numerous household and commercial lamps and lighting equipment. These are the same rules proposed by the Department of Energy and reported on by LightNOW here.
These new rules, which take effect in 2012, focus on general service fluorescent lamps and incandescent reflector lamps. According to Energy, these fluorescent and incandescent lamps represent approximately 38% and 7% of total lighting energy use respectively.
The final rules, as issued by the Secretary of Energy on June 26, 2009, can be viewed and downloaded from the Office Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s website here.
More to come …
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